Tigers that have eaten human flesh must be killed, no matter which country will do this, and this is not because "killing pays for life", and the consequences of not killing are endless.
According to Indian media reports, on October 9, 2022, Indian police dispatched more than 200 people to round up a male tiger, and after six hours of tracking and searching, found and killed the tiger.
Tigers are endangered, so why kill them? The reason is that this male tiger, known as the "Changparan man-eating tiger", has caused nine deaths in the past few months.
The tiger has been roaming on the edge of the Chanbaran Valmiki Tiger Sanctuary in eastern India, posing a great threat to the local population. In the week before it was killed, at least three people were killed.
After the Indian police besieged it, they tried to calm its emotions, but the tiger did not have the slightest fear in the face of the crowd, completely without the fear of wild animals for people, and finally could only shoot it.
Perhaps the more famous of the tiger injuries in mainland China was the July 23, 2016 incident in Beijing's Badaling Wildlife Park, which killed one tiger and injured one.
After the tiger injury incident, although the park does not have the right to dispose of the tiger (that is, it does not have the right to kill it), according to the relevant regulations on animal breeding, the injured tiger has been kept in captivity.
On January 29, 2017, a tiger bite occurred at Ningbo's Youngor Zoo, and a tourist jumped over the zoo wall and jumped directly into the tiger park, resulting in a tragedy in which the tiger was killed on the spot while biting.
In the above 3 examples, the wounded tigers ended up either killed or kept in captivity, in short, they would no longer be free. So why does a wounded tiger have to kill it? Let's talk about this topic.
1. Under what circumstances can a tiger hurt someone?
Isn't it normal for a tiger to hurt people, one might say? But this is not the case, wild animals do not like to be near inhabited environments, and they do not easily hurt people. Except in the following cases:
As the saying goes, rabbits bite when they are in a hurry, and when wild animals are frightened or injured, they will subconsciously launch a counterattack. For example, snakes generally do not hurt people, but if you use your hands to catch it, then don't blame the snake for biting.
Although tigers are not scared in most cases, they have a very strong sense of territory and will be very irritated to the outside world. If someone trespasses into the tiger's territory, or gets too close to the tiger and makes them feel threatened, the tiger is likely to hurt people out of self-preservation.
Cannibalism by beasts is uncommon because humans with two feet are not their prey. Wild tigers live all year round in the mountains and forests, where they are rarely populated, and they have hardly seen humans, so humans are not on their diets.
But if a tiger descends a mountain, or someone breaks into the deep mountains and forests and is spotted by a tiger, and the tiger has been hungry for a few days, then it is likely to hunt you as prey.
Injured wild animals are very irritable, and they will attack anything strange that comes close. If a tiger is injured and someone tries to approach at this time, the tiger will not hesitate to attack.
In addition, lactating tigresses are also very aggressive, as the saying goes, a mother is strong, and this is also true for wild animals.
2. Why did a tiger that had eaten people kill it?
Tigers that have injured people, especially tigers that have eaten human flesh, have only two endings:
If the tiger is committing a crime, people will kill the injured with a high probability of killing them; If someone rounds up during the absconding, since it is an endangered animal, it is likely to be anesthetized using anesthesia guns, etc., and locked up after being captured.
But whether it is killed or imprisoned, this is not to help the injured get justice, nor to punish the tiger, but if the tiger is released to the mountain, there will be endless troubles.
As wild animals, tigers are originally afraid of humans, and generally do not go near inhabited environments, which is where their wildness lies.
But a tiger that has hunted humans and tasted human flesh will find that humans are not scary and are easy to catch. And once this becomes the cognition of tigers, then it will use humans as prey in the future.
After returning to the deep mountains and old forests, the tiger that has eaten human flesh may not only go down the mountain to eat people again in the future, but it may also pass this information to other tigers.
For example, a tigress that has eaten humans may bring her children to hunt humans when raising offspring in the future. This will give the tiger's genes an extra message that humans with two legs are good prey!
3. How to save yourself when encountering a tiger?
Under the premise that today's tigers are critically endangered, it is not easy to encounter tigers, and being attacked by tigers is also a small probability event. As mentioned at the beginning of the article, the tiger injury incidents in the mainland were all caused by tiger attacks when tourists violated relevant regulations when they were sightseeing in the zoo.
Although encountering tigers in the wild is relatively rare, residents living near the environment where tigers inhabit still have a certain probability of encountering wild tigers. For example, the Siberian tiger "Wandalshan No. 1" went down the mountain and injured people, when a wild Siberian tiger broke into the village, causing injuries to the villagers.
So how can you save yourself if you encounter a tiger in the wild or in the village?
First of all, to be clear, if you are already within range of the tiger's attack, and the tiger has launched a definite attack, then your chances of survival are almost zero, because with human ability, you can't withstand the tiger's attack anyway.
Tigers have a strong explosive power, they can pounce on their prey at a speed of more than 60 kilometers per hour when hunting, the distance below the jump can reach more than 7 meters, and they can easily jump over obstacles 2 meters high, so if humans enter the attack range of tigers, they can't run away anyway.
However, when encountering tigers, tigers do not regard people as prey, they are also relatively new to humans, and will watch from afar. And the time when the tiger is hesitant is the best time for you to escape.
At this point, all you have to do is not to provoke the tiger, and before it can attack, slowly retreat back in front of the tiger, retreat to a safe distance, and quickly leave the scene. Never turn around and run, as this will arouse the tiger's desire to prey and it will catch up immediately.
If you see a tiger in the village, quickly look for cover, enter a hidden, secure room, and then call the relevant authorities for help.
In fact, there is no other way to encounter tigers except to try to stay away, and rumors of pretending to die, climbing trees, sliding shovels and so on are all ways to make you become tiger food faster.
Some people may say that tigers can't climb trees, and they quickly climb trees when they encounter tigers. But the reality is that although the tiger cannot climb trees (mainly because it is too heavy for fear of falling), it is very strong in jumping and drags you down before you climb the tree.
You can't escape when you encounter a tiger jumping into the water in the wild, because the tiger is a master swimmer, it can even dive into the water and compete with crocodiles, and you can't stay in the water all the time.
Playing dead is also useless for tigers, because tigers have the habit of locking their throats, even if they are already lying motionless on the ground, the tiger will first carefully check whether they are dead, and it can judge this by the prey's breathing and heartbeat.